One-on-one with Lucia K. (RRB)

Lucia will be joining us this week, and I was so excited to have a one-on-one visit with her as a welcome to the virtual classroom!  During our call, Lucia showed me a lot of things that she has been working on at home, but the story of her painting was insightful and beautiful! 

We started by discovering that we have similar stuffed huskies! 

“Maybe they have the same ear fur, and the tail is this tail!” - Lucia, 3.11 years 

A blank canvas

Is that your easel set up behind you?  Have you been painting?  - Elyse
“No, it’s all blank.  It’s just blank.” - Lucia 
It’s a blank canvas.  That’s pretty exciting though. - Elyse

“I made some shrimp paint.” - Lucia, 3.11 years
Can you tell me more about that?  Elyse  
“It’s shrimp.” - Lucia 
“I'm adding blue, but I think I need some red.” - Lucia
That looks like a darker blue. - Elyse
“It’s navy.” - Lucia
How did you make it? - Elyse
“We mixed colors. We mixed all of the colors to make the colors; we used all of the paints” - Lucia 
What colors do you use when you’re mixing? - Elyse
“I use any colors.” - Lucia

“I’ve been painting at school on the easel, but these are different brushes. They’re different colors of brushes.” - Lucia

Lucia, I’m going to mix colors on zoom with my friend Saul.  What colors should we make? - Elyse
“Shrimp!” - Lucia 
How did you make shrimp? What colors did you make? - Elyse
“Some red.” - Lucia
What else did you mix with it to make shrimp? - Elyse
“Red and white.” - Lucia 
(mixing) “It’s shrimpy!” - Lucia 

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“Hmm…I see a little bit more white.  I need shrimp.” - Lucia

Putting the finishing touches on her puzzle.

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 I noticed that your blue is overlapping your red. - Elyse
“Yeah they go together. So, it’s a puzzle. I”m covering all of the little spots, and connecting all of the big spots.  It’s a lot of shrimp.” - Lucia 
It looks like shrimp is your main color; it’s your connecting color. - Elyse
“Yeah, it’s the middle piece color.  I’m going to use all of it so there aren’t any open spots. You have to paint the whole thing.” - Lucia 
I noticed that you switched brush sizes. - Elyse
“Yeah, that’s the brush in the color that I need.” - Lucia 
“I don’t only need one color. I need a colorful puzzle.” - Lucia